The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State committee forcefully dismissed the allegation by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the Union Corporate Affairs Ministry’s probe into the company affairs of the now defunct IT consultancy firm of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter T. Veena have put the government and the party in the dock.
CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan said the civil inquiry into the legitimate and on-record transactions of the IT firm lost all sensational value if “you subtracted the Chief Minister from the equation”. Mr. Govindan said the Congress in Kerala had devolved into the ideological echo chamber of the BJP by seeking to lend legitimacy to the Centre’s political witch-hunt against Mr. Vijayan.
